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Provider Education and Training

VA has a variety of resources available for community providers to equip you with the knowledge needed to successfully provide care to Veterans. This page contains the latest education and training resources offered for VA community providers.

Provider Training

Providers must create an account in VHA Training Finder Real-Time Affiliate Integrated Network (TRAIN) and include their unique National Provider Identifier (NPI) in their VHA TRAIN profile before registering and completing this training. For assistance or help with VHA TRAIN account creation, please contact the VHA TRAIN Help Desk.

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Required course

Community providers must complete the required opioid safety training course and submit the attestation form confirming course completion.

Opioid safety for Veterans with chronic pain
This course promotes evidence-based techniques to improve patient outcomes for Veterans with chronic pain and decrease complications associated with opioid prescribing. The web-based training is suitable for pharmacy professionals, physicians, and other clinicians.
Credit/hours: One (1)

Highly recommended courses

It is also highly recommended community providers complete courses on suicide prevention, which fall under VA Secretary’s top priorities.

Preventing Suicide Through Lethal Mean Safety (MLS) & Safety Planning
This course provides lethal means safety training and resources for mental health and suicide prevention clinicians and other mental health and suicide prevention clinicians. The web-based training is suitable for mental health professionals, physicians, and nurses.
Credit/hours: One (1)
Accreditations: APA, ACCME, ACCME-NP, ANCC, APA, NBCC, ASWB, NYSED SW

Provider Webinar Series

VHA Office of Integrated Veteran care has sunsetted its live webinar series. To view previous webinars, visit the Provider Webinar Series Archive.

Provider Webinar Series Archive

VHA TRAIN Courses

VHA TRAIN provides a wealth of training and education resources for community providers. Per MISSION Act, Section 123, these offerings are no-cost, Veteran-focused, and accredited for continuing medical education. Courses are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Visit the VHA TRAIN website to get started. More information about how to enroll, a list of available courses, and additional instructions for how to register can be found in the VHA TRAIN account creation guide.

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This VHA TRAIN video describes training course offerings and how to access them. Published on Nov 22, 2017.

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Additional Educational Resources

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Additional educational resources for community providers
Resource link Description and additional links
War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) Provider Training This webpage provides training on Veteran environmental and airborne health exposures including: Agent Orange, Gulf War, Burn-Pits and PFAS; and the range of chronic multi-symptom post-deployment illnesses including: pain, PTSD, fatigue, respiratory, and many more, to help providers and their care teams support the health care of Veterans.
VHA TRAIN–Military Culture: Core Competencies for Healthcare Professionals These training courses provide community providers with information about treating the unique Veteran patient population.
  • Module 1: Self-Assessment/Intro to Military Ethos
  • Module 2: Military Organization and Roles
  • Module 3: Stressors and Resources
  • Module 4: Treatment, Resources, and Tools
Center for Deployment Psychology This website supports and enhances the Military Culture: Core Competencies for Healthcare Professionals online course.
Community Care Provider Opioid Safety Initiative This training course promotes evidence-based management of Veterans with chronic pain. A collaborative effort between VA and community providers, the goal is to improve patient outcomes and decrease the incidence of complications from opioid prescribing.
VHA Pain Management Opioid Safety Initiative (OSI) This webpage serves to educate and ensure a greater awareness of the first evidence-based guideline to be shared with our community partners – the VHA Opioid Safety Initiative (OSI). The initiative is focused on building a collaborative relationship between VHA and its community partners to improve patient outcomes, ensure patient safety, and increase efficiency of our community-based services.
VA Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Centers (MIRECC) and Centers of Excellence (CoEs) Suicide Risk Management Consultation Program MIRECC/CoEs Suicide Risk Management program offers free consultation for any provider who works with Veterans at-risk for suicide. Other resources available from MIRECC include:
National Center for PTSD These resources are free and available to any provider:
Community Provider Toolkit A useful toolkit for community providers who take care of Veterans.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Consultation Program This program provides training and consultation on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for health care professionals who treat Veterans.
Pregnancy Management: Clinical Practice Guidelines This detailed VA/DoD reference guide provides industry best practices for symptoms and diagnoses related to pregnancy management.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Chronic pain is common, multidimensional, and individualized, and treatment can be challenging for healthcare providers as well as patients. In response to the critical need for consistent and current opioid prescribing guidelines, the CDC released the Clinical Practice Guideline Partner Toolkit containing the Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Education and Outreach Get training, earn credit, attend events and find resources.
American Medical Association (AMA) Education Hub Sharpen your knowledge and build essential skills to succeed in your medical practice.
American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Learning Opportunities AHIMA offers learning opportunities on many topics.
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